Douglas Kennedy

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.

Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.

A Special Relationship opens with war photographer Virginie Faure walking through the corpse-ridden streets of a deserted, bombed-out city and saving a child's life, eventually with the help of fellow-journalist Damian Gaudry. So begins a fortuitous, head-over-heels love story in the midst of death and utter chaos. But it's only after Virginie discovers she's pregnant that things slowly begin to spiral out of control, and she loses her emotional bearings.